The XV Elizabethan procession took place on September 27, 2026translated

On September 27, on Sunday and the Feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, Archbishop Thomas of Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Spassky Church in the village of Usovo. The Bishop was concelebrated by: the secretary of the Odintsovo diocese, the rector of the Spassky Church, Archpriest Dionisy Kazantsev, the secretary of the Odintsovo administration, the head of the secretariat of the VRNS, the rector of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Krasnogorsk, Priest Vasily Losev, dean of the Zvenigorod church district, Priest Nikolai Kurenkov, dean of the Lyubiretsk church district (Podolsk diocese), editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Moscow Metropolis, priest Vyacheslav Novak, invited clergy. At the special litany, special forgiveness and prayer for Holy Rus' were offered. At the end of the service, Bishop Thomas addressed the worshipers with the words of a sermon. After the service, a religious procession took place. The procession of the Cross began from the Church of Elijah the Prophet in the village of Ilyinskoye to the crossing of the Moscow River.

After the Crossing of the Procession across the Moscow River on a pontoon bridge and on rafts, a prayer service will take place on the river bank and the reading of an akathist to the Holy Martyr Grand Duchess Elisaveta Feodorovna. Upon arrival, there was…